Name details

Doolittle Bluff

Doolittle Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Doolittle Bluff  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113173

Feature type: Bluff (2f)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A steep rocky bluff rising 500m above Suess Glacier at the north wall of Taylor Valley, to 1833m . Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MF09

Named For

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after John H. (Jack) Doolittle, American physicist, Station Science Leader at Siple Station, winter party 1977; Research Scientist, Lockheed Martin Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Space Physics Laboratory, from 1983; Staff Physicist from 1993; continuous participation as a South Pole co-investigator in auroral studies since 1983; 20 working visits to Antarctica (McMurdo, Siple and South Pole Stations) from the 1975-76 season.

Location

Latitude:
77° 37' 00.0" S
-77.61667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
162° 38' 00.0" E
162.63333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
1700 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
MF09 : Edition 1.01 Published 2014
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
LINZ
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
7-Oct-1998

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